Posted on 08/22/2018 8:48:30 AM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday said that the Senate Judiciary Committee should delay its confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of former President Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's guilty plea.
"It's a game changer. It should be. ... In my view, the Senate Judiciary Committee should immediately pause the consideration of the Kavanaugh nomination," Schumer said from the Senate floor.
He added that he thought Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, had scheduled Kavanaugh's hearing "too soon" and he believed it should be delayed.
Kavanaugh's hearing is scheduled to begin Sept. 4. Republicans have given no indication they are open to delaying the hearing.
But Democrats are demanding that it be delayed after Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance law violations.
Lanny Davis, Cohen's lawyer, has said that Cohen's decision implicates the president of wrongdoing.
"Very clearly, there is no dispute that Donald Trump committed a crime," he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe". "No dispute, because his own lawyers said to the special counsel in a letter that he directed, that's the word they used, Michael Cohen to make these payments.
Democrats have raised concerns that Kavanaugh has a broad view on executive authority and would try to protect Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Schumer told reporters on Tuesday that Kavanaugh would not say in their meeting if he believed a president could be subpoenaed.
He added on Wednesday that his answer combined with Cohen's plea makes Kavanaugh's nomination a "danger."
"At the very least, the very least, it is unseemly for the president of the United States to be picking a Supreme Court justice who could soon be effectively a juror in a case involving the president himself," Schumer said.
Several Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, which Schumer is not a member of, have also called for Kavanaugh's hearings to be delayed.
Too bad AG Sessions hasn't come out of hibernation to announce this!
What a one-two punch this would be, along with POTUS declassifying the FISA apps.
Btw....has anyone seen/heard from Huber?
Scumbag does not adequately describe the steaming pile of rot known as Chuck Schumer.
How’s it a game changer if the game wasn’t changed?
Does Schumer just live in his own little world?
How are Cohen's extortion payments different from those paid on behalf of elected representatives? It is WAY PAST TIME for publication of the identities of those elected officials on whose behalf the Rape Fund made payouts.
I think everything gets blasted out of the water if Republicans do well in the midterms. Maybe the most important midterm elections in my lifetime. I hope everyone turns out.
Who informs your standards for "should"?
Satan?
In order to know the true state of John McCain one only needs to declare war on Iran and tell him his vote is needed or war will not happen. If he doesn’t show up then I’d fear the worst.
I am so sick of this man..... why does the media continue to give him a voice.
Badly played tic-tac-toe.
I agree, if the midterms turn out okay it’ll take the wind out of their sails.
The difference is that we, the taxpayers paid the hush money for congresscritters bad behavior, which I guess is perfectly okay.
Lanny is sickening, very telling that he’s Cohen’s lawyer.
Making the Supreme Court illegitimate to half the country is a GREAT plan, Schucks!
I’m always amazed at the left’s persistence and energy. They never give up and they never give in. It is maddening, but respectable in a way.
Or neither but just in hiding in case his role in the fake dossier comes to light.
Don’t think so Chuckie.
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